Datus E. Coon

Datus Ensign Coon was a Union Army officer during the Civil War who later became a newspaper publisher and planter in Alabama. During Reconstruction he served as a state legislator representing Dallas County in the Alabama House of Representatives and was a delegate to the 1875 Alabama Constitutional Convention. He was born in 1831 and […]

Richard W. Johnson

Richard Woodhouse Johnson was a career U.S. Army officer who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Born in Smithland, Kentucky, he served in the Army from 1849 to 1866. He died in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1897.